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CIS-A2K Newsletter - September 2016
by Subhashish Panigrahi 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear friends, We are happy to share the consolidated newsletter for September 2016. Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? —Ting-Yi Chang (September 18, 2016) Five years after Wikimedia Foundation's 2011 editor survey ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.p…) was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales. "Our editing community continues to suffer from a lack of women editors. only 8.5% of editors are women." Probably the most cited statement for Wikipedia gender gap studies, the editor survey conducted by Wikimedia Foundation in April 2011 revealed the alarming imbalance within the online encyclopedia community(s). In the same survey, the percentage of female Wikipedians in India is reported as only 3%. When we have repeatedly emphasized on the development and changes the internet can bring to our societies, how do we ensure that behind our computer screen it is not just another mirror reflecting what has been silenced and forgotten? . . . Read more on Blogs ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Part 1 ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-t…) , Part 2 ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-t…) and Part 3 ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/another-5-years-what-have-we-learned-about-t…) ) == Program reports = Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports: * Wikiwomen's Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Ting-Yi Chang; September 1, 2016) Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online. * A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates ( http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articl…) (Pavan Santhosh; September 12, 2016) Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates. * Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses ( http://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-un…) (Pavan Santhosh S. & Subhashish Panigrahi; September 20, 2016). A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.. == Articles/blogs = Articles, opinion pieces, analysis pieces: * ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା¸ ( http://cis-india.org/openness/software-freedom-day) : (Subhashish Panigrahi; September 18, 2016). The blog post was mirrored in Your Story ( https://odia.yourstory.com/read/b3b56fd08a/-?c=16) , Odisha Story ( http://www.odishastory.com/odia/2016/09/software-freedom/) and Aajira Odisha (http://aajiraodisha.org/software-freedom/) on September 17, 2016. The originally published piece can be accessed here ( http://psubhashish.com/post/150524560200/sfd) . Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant social change. I have also shared how anyone can contribute to the FOSS movement in different ways and celebrate SFD. . == Team updates = Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tniranjana) , our Programme Advisor, and Abhinav Garule ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abhinavgarule) , Programme Associate for Marathi have left the team recently to continue with their other personal/professional commitments. We thank both of them for their association and support both to the team and to the community. We wish them success in their forthcoming endeavors, and hope that they will keep contributing to the Wikimedia movement in their volunteer capacity. If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe) . This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/September_2016 Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/ Follow us on Twitter at @CISA2K

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नवीन CIS-A2K भाषा संयोजक नेमणूक| Position for Language Anchor at CIS-A2K
by Abhinav Garule 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

प्रिय विकीमेडियन्स, मराठी विकीमेडिया प्रकलपासाठी भाषा संयोजक या पदासाठी नोटीस CIS-A2K च्या संकेत स्थळावर येथे <http://cis-india.org/jobs/community-advocate-on-consultancy-basis-access-to…>अपलोड केली आहे. अधिक माहितीसाठी tanveer(a)cis-india.org येथे संपर्क साधू शकता. Resume, Cover-letter पाठविण्याची अंतिम मुदत २० ऑक्टोबर २०१६ आहे. धन्यवाद, Dear Wikimedians, We have uploaded notice for Marathi Wikimedia Community Advocate notice on here on CIS-A2K website.[1] <http://cis-india.org/jobs/community-advocate-on-consultancy-basis-access-to…> Please send Resume, Cover letter by 20th Oct. 2016 to Tanveer Hasan. And for more information contact: tanveer(a)cis-india.org Thank you. [1] http://cis-india.org/jobs/community-advocate-on-consultancy-basis-access-to… -- Best Regards, Abhinav Garule <https://www.facebook.com/abhinav.garule> +91 9404 9636 60 New Media Designer, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

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Vacancy for a Programme Officer for the Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K)
by Subhashish Panigrahi 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Dear friends, First of all, apologies if this mail is not in your native language. This to share with you all that we have published on the jobs section of the CIS website [0] for the position of Programme Officer of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme. We would really appreciate if you can share with interested friends, colleagues and communities. Please let us know if there is any kind of changes needed. We will love to address any concerns or inputs. Best, Subhashish ---------- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications from prospective candidates who identify themselves as female, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications) , to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bengaluru office. Programme Officer will work closely with CIS-A2K Team (hereinafter Team) and would report to the Executive Director/any supervisor in Team. Position Summary: As a Programme Officer, your job will be to support the Team’s larger goals — growth of Indian-language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects (hereinafter Wikimedia projects), and the contributor communities (hereinafter Community). Your primary responsibility will be to support the Programme Associates — that spearhead our on-ground programmatic activities -- with regular communications with the community and the world outside. Characteristics of the Programme Officer: * High level of commitment: The Programme Officer should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission. * Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons. * Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion, open to input and feedback, a proactive and candid communicator who wants people to know what s/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring others in when things are off-track or when you need help and should able to handle criticism in a mature fashion. * Community builder: It is essential that the Programme Officer sees herself/himself as a partner to and supporter of the Wikimedians who have and will continue to be the leaders in building the Wikimedia projects. The Programme Officer must be willing and able to work with a diverse array of people, many of whom come from non-traditional backgrounds and have a fervent commitment to Wikimedia movement’s community-led nature. * Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India. * Partnership developer: Able to initiate, negotiate and operate partnerships that advance the Wikimedia mission in Indic languages and English (as relevant to India) with a wide range of institutions across the public, NGO, universities, philanthropic and private sector. * Willing to travel: The Programme Officer must regularly travel within India to engage with Wikimedia communities and partner with institutions. Responsibilities: * You will be responsible for the overall communications of Team that include storytelling in the form of interviews, blogs, opinion pieces in newspaper/other platforms, regular coverage in both Indian language and English media, and anything beyond. * You will be exploring widely from conventional to new media to spread the stories of the hundreds and thousands of volunteers that make the Indian-language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects such great knowledge repositories. * Creating original stories of challenges and learning, and successes of Wikimedia community in general and the ones that we closely work with in particular. * Function as an interface between A2K team and the community, and help the team better work collaboratively with the community. * Sharing the work of the community and A2k team in a regular basis in the monthly newsletters and other places. * Providing training on effective communications to the communities in a need basis, and supporting them to independently tell their own stories in their own languages. * Announcement of programmatic activities in the form of announcements, blogs and reports, and microblogging (social media, etc.). * Interviewing Wikimedians under the ambit of the WikipediansSpeak [*] project and beyond, and share the story of the Wikimedia community widely in the media. Required Skills: * Graduate or masters in journalism/other media studies, law, or any other discipline with at least two-three years of professional experience with a strong track record of success in high performance organisations, preferably in non-profits. * Experience could be during studies or after, primarily in blogging, writing organisation reports, managing social media for organisations, interviewing and covering people’s stories in mainstream media. * Prior experience of working in a collaborative community, preferably and open one like Wikipedia and in online. * Good understanding of the basics of organisational programme design and management. * Strong understanding of the Internet and the forces that underpin the success of Wikipedia. Active participation as a Wikimedia volunteer would be an asset, though not a prerequisite (must be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of how Wikipedia works in interviews). * Experience working in a global, multicultural and diverse team environment will be preferred. * Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language. * A good understanding of the cultural and knowledge universe of the Indian language communities. * Ability to integrate and understand the complexity of the Indian language communities. Pluses: * Support India-focused initiatives to improve quality of India-relevant content and number of editors on Indian-language Wikimedia projects. * Support the growth of Indian-language Wikimedia communities and projects by designing and implementing community collaborations and partnerships projects – detailing rationale, aim and objective, execution, evaluation, timeline, resource investment, etc. * Spearhead CIS-A2K’s pilot projects.Identify institutions/groups that have ready-made content/archived material and aggregate available material in respective languages. * Create a network of state institutions, university departments, non-government organisations, academics, artists, researchers and Wikipedia community members that will work towards creating a repository of knowledge on specific themes by using Wikimedia projects as a platform. * Conduct initial meetings with the principal investigators from each of the shortlisted institutions and share project ideas. * Facilitate Wikimedia community involvement with the core network of institutions and principal investigators to collaboratively participate on specific content/area modules. * Create social media platforms for visibility of these projects and facilitate need-based technical and online support. * Conduct a series of Wikimedia outreach sessions for various nodes within the network. * Conduct periodic monitoring and evaluation of the pilot projects in progress. * Generate and document lessons from programme activities that can inform the work of Indian communities and similar programmes in other countries. * Provide ad hoc support to the Wikipedia community on all aspects of Indian languages as may be deemed necessary. Context of the CIS-A2K programme: As an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s sister project, we design and implement different projects with an aim to create high quality content and cultivate new contributors to Wikimedia projects. The projects will be premised on themes and seek to create a multilingual repository of knowledge using Wikimedia projects as a knowledge platform. You are encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K work plan before making the application. You will work cohesively with the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia India Chapter to meet specific goals of each language community in India. You will be a part of a small team of 5 to 10 doing high visibility and high impact work. Please note that we, at CIS, do not have any distinction,exclusion, or preference that is based on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, social origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity and treatment in employment. (adapted from Declaration ILO Geneva [3]) Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office. Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration. To apply, please send your resume along with a covering letter and at least three references to Tanveer Hasan (tanveer(a)cis-india.org) by October 20, 2016. Notes: 0. http://cis-india.org/jobs/cis-a2k-programme-officer 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter 2. WikipediansSpeak is an initiative to bring the voices of Wikipedians to the world and include interviews in various media, both multimedia and text-based narratives and beyond. More in the project page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak> 3. http://www.ilo.org/public/portugue/region/eurpro/lisbon/pdf/agender_jun06.p… Thanks, Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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Vacancy for a Programme Officer for the Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K)
by Subhashish Panigrahi 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

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Tulu Wikipedia goes live after 8 years in Incubator; and more in CIS-A2K's August newsletter
by Subhashish Panigrahi 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Dear friends, We are happy to share the consolidated newsletter for August. Apologies that this is not in your native language(s). Community digest: Tulu Wikipedia goes live after eight years in Incubator; news in brief: Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language. Available at https://tcy.wikipedia.org, the project has a total of 1285 articles contributed by 198 editors. Other news in brief: * Ongoing India At Rio Olympics 2016 Edit-a-thon (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…) promises to plant one tree for every 20 new articles created * Wiki Loves Monuments (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind…) returns to India after three years * WikiConference India 2016 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016) , the largest Wikimedia community gathering of the year in South Asia comes to an end * Ashutosh Sarangi (https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ashusarangi) , the youngest Wikimedian from the oldest Indian-language Wikipedia community . . . Read more on Blog (https://https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/) Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief: This post shares learning from a Goan Konkani Wikipedian User:The Discoverer. The discussion spans around the topics of how [Goan Konkani] Wikipedia is playing the role of a binding factor for native speakers that are currently dispersed in many states, speak in different variations of the same language, and write in different scripts. Other news in brief: * WikiConference India 2016 to be held at Chandigarh during August 5–7 * Punjab edit-a-thon * Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses * Train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training program for capacity building of community leaders from Indian subcontinent * Indian women in Science edit-a-thon * Indigenous South-Asian language Santali gets a new open Unicode font . . . Read more on Blog (https://https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/24/digest-tulu-wikipedia/) Programme reports == Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports == * A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates (http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articl…) (Pavan Santhosh S; August 31, 2016) Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates. * Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses (http://cis-india.org/openness/campaign-for-relicensing-copyrighted-books-un…) . (Pavan Santhosh S and Subhashish Panigrahi; August 30) A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. This campaign was started on June 19 and copyright migration process is complete for 17 books so far. Once the copyright migration is over the books—ranging from historical figures and popular personalities to regional history—are going to be digitised on Wikisource. * Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Ting-Yi Chang, August 27, 2016) Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online. == Participation in events and the ongoing events == * Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-signpost-august-18-2016-pete-forsyth-and-…) (Organized by by the Community of Wikimedians in India, supported by Wikimedia India and CIS; August 5 - 7, 2016; Chandigarh; CIS-A2K team participated, and some of the members were part of organising the event and some presented talks and conducted workshops) == Articles, opinion/analysis pieces and event talk submissions == * 3 Copyright Tips for Students and Educators (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3-copyright-tips-for-students-and-educators) (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; August 16, 2016). * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-august-21-2016-o…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; Samaja; August 21, 2016). * Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preserving-languages-and-cultures-in-india-t…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 26, 2016). * Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language! (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/global-voices-august-28-2016-subhashish-pani…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 28, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-how-to-…) (Subhashish Panigrahi; August 17, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-we-men-…) (Ting-Yi Chang; August 17, 2016). * WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiconference-india-2016-submission-gender-…) (Dr. U.B. Pavanaja; August 17, 2016). * Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-digest-tulu-wikipedia-goes-live-af…) (Subhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi Chang; August 24, 2016). * Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-ex…) (Ting-Yi Chang; August 31, 2016). == Media coverage == Events and activities that we have organised or participated in: * WikiConference India 2016 Starts Friday in Chandigarh (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/indo-asian-news-service-ndtv-august-4-2016-wi…) (Indo Asian News Service and NDTV; August 4, 2016). * Tulu Wikipedia Goes 'Live' (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wikipedia-goes-live) (Wikimedia Blog; August 5, 2016). * India's 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/business-standard-august-6-2016-india-23-regi…) (IANS and Business Standard; August 6, 2016). * After eight years, Tulu Wikipedia goes live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/hindu-raviprasad-kamila-august-7-2016-after-e…) (Raviprasad Kamila; Hindu; August 7, 2016). * In Tulu, India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Goes Live (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/huffington-post-august-7-2016-naina-chaturved…) (Naina Chaturvedi; Huffington Post; August 7, 2016) * India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Launches (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/ccm-august-8-2016-ranu-p-india-23-regional-wi…) (CMM.net; August 8, 2016). * Wikipedia launches in Tulu, its 23rd Indic language (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/medianama-august-9-2016-vivek-pai-wikipedia-l…) (Vivek Pai; Medianama; August 9, 2016). * Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-cov…) (Sakshi; August 11, 2016). * Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-cov…) (Eenadu; August 11, 2016). * Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mid-day-anju-maskeri-august-21-2016-tulu-gets…) (Anju Maskeri; Mid-Day; August 21, 2016). * Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telug…) (Andhra Jyothi; August 26, 2016). * Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email service (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/data-xgen-launches-paid-hindi-email-service) (Sneha Johari; Medianama; August 29, 2016). If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe) . This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2016 Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/ Follow us on Twitter at @CISA2K

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Will be in your city on coming Monday the 29th
by Subhashish Panigrahi 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Dear friends, First of all, sincere apologies for this last moment mail. I am going to be there in Pune on coming Monday (August 29) and will be free to catch up with any Wikimedian friends during 8 am - 12 noon before leaving for the airport. This trip not being a work trip got decided late and I wish I could have shared about this earlier. But would love to meet you if you are free. Please feel free to ping me offlist or here or call me up at eight-zero-five-zero-five-one-five-three-three-nine. Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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CIS-A2K July Newsletter: Advanced Wikipedia editing trainings for Marathi and Telugu communities, and more
by Subhashish Panigrahi 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Dear friends, We are happy to share the newsletter for July. This includes updates from the work we are associated with, and updates about the Rio Olympics edit-a-thon that is being organised by our friends from Wikimedia India. Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. The typeface family was designed by type designer Pooja Saxena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anexasajoop) and went through several rounds of review by language experts. However, the typeface (https://github.com/anexasajoop/olchiki-fontfamily) is still one step away from reality. Because of this, two input methods (https://github.com/GuruGomke/ol-chiki) will be made available along with the typeface; Sarjom Baha (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inp…) , a phonetic input method so that every common user can easily type the they pronounce the words, and InScript (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ol_Chiki_InScript_keyboard_layout.s…) , a keyboard layout standard for Indian scripts. Even though the original plan was to create a editor community to contribute to the Santali Wikipedia (https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sat/Main_Page) and bring it live from Incubator, outputs will just be distributed for the users to use them. Update: The input methods (https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/tree/master/rules/sat) are now up on all the Wikimedia projects as part of the Universal Language Selector (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector) . . . . Check the blog (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-july-8-2…) and the project page for more details of the Ol chiki project. == Event announcements == Event announcements and press releases: * Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-w…) (10 July 2016) A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join. == Ongoing events == * India At Rio Olympics 2016 edit-a-thon (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…) (July 29 - September 18). Organised by Wikimedia India and participated by Indic language Wikimedia communities. 18 language Wikipedia communities, including English, are expected to take part and 12 of these have coordinators to help their community to participate in the edit-a-thon. == Programme reports == Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports: * Subray, Ananth. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…) (14 July 2016) We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th. * Garule, Abhinav. "Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-m…) (17 August 2016) A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building. In this report, learn more about the experience of Santoshi Tiwari, a Wikimedian who travelled from the city of Nashik to participate in this event. * Santhosh S., Pavan. Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians at Hyderabad (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimed…) (31 July 2016) To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised on July 10 during the monthly meetup at Hyderabad. We have attempted to capture the experience and inputs of long time Telugu Wikimedians Rajashekhar and Murali Mohan in this report. == Articles/blogs == Articles, opinion pieces, analysis pieces: * K.T., Dhanalakshmi. "ತರಬೇತಿ ಮಾಡಲು ತರಬೇತಿಗೊಂಡಾಗ.... CIS-A2K TTT 2016 (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ca4cb0cacca4cbf-caecbeca1cb2cc1-ca4cb0cacca4…) ". CIS blog (12 June 2016) Dhanalakshmi, a student from St Agnes College, Mangaluru, who was a participant of TTT 2016 has blogged her experience at Train-the-Trainer 2016 event organized by the Centre for Internet & Society earlier this year. * Panigrahi, Subhashish. Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-july-8-2…) (8 July 2016) Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. == Media coverage == Events and activities that we have organised or participated in: * Prasad, Anant. "The Digital Oxygen for Odia Language (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/my-city-links-july-4-2016-digital-oxygen-for-…) (4 July 2016) If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe) . This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2016 Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/ Follow us on Twitter at @CISA2K

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Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)
by Santosh Shingare 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

Hello all, I am happy to announce, chandigarh hackathon WCI2016, close with 7 application, which is useful to all community. *1)* *WikiSpeak with native language :* (Hindi) (*Web Application* + *Android Mobile application*). *2)* *Edit Tamil Wiktionary **(Tamil community request)** :* - (*Android application*) *3)* *Audio file upload to WikiData (Punjabi community request) :* (*Android application*) *4) Wikipedia articles on google map :* find wikipedia articles on google map (with latitude and longitude) as per city. *5) OCR (Native Application) *: Convert scanned book copy to Indian language text with google doc (Tested for Hindi and Malayalam). *6) Communication platform[WebRTC] (Web Application)* : Community used this to talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application) *7) Notification (Event based)* : showing popup on event eg (If recent changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated) Thank you all participant. who participate in hackathon and deliver a big success *Note : I will share code, links and other details very shortly.* Thank you *Santosh Shingare.* *User:cherishsantosh*

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Hackathon in Wiki Conference India 2016
by Santosh Shingare 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hello all, If you are interested to attend hackathon in Wiki Conference India 2016. Please participate and put your name in attendees list. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Chandigarh_Hackat… Thank you - Santosh Shingare

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WCI 2016 Hackathon survey
by Santosh Shingare 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello all, In the upcoming Wiki conference India 2016, a hackathon session will be conducted. The aim of the hackathon is to attempt to provide technical support to Indic Wikimedia communities. Please spend 2 minutes and fill this form and share with your community so that we can learn your and community’s need: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EIgOuTjwzHqqR94m1GhDnbyKFkDG9HCXH-t17k8hZV… *Note : Scheduling hangout regarding hackathon on Tuesday 19 July 2016 @ 2100Hr.* Thank you Santosh Shingare.

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